Effects of long working hours on the health of food-delivery workers
10.20001/j.issn.2095-2619.20231208
- VernacularTitle:长工时对送餐外卖员早期健康效应的影响
- Author:
Yinan HE
1
;
Jinshen WANG
;
Weiyu MA
;
Hailin ZHOU
;
Jiabin LIANG
;
Xiaoman LIU
;
Shuang LI
;
Yimin LIU
;
Zhi WANG
Author Information
1. Key Laboratory of Occupational Environment and Health, the Twelfth People's Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510620, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Delivery workers;
Long working hours;
Occupational stress;
Depressive symptoms;
Insomnia symptoms;
Fatigue accumulation;
Life satisfaction
- From:
China Occupational Medicine
2023;50(6):645-650
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
{L-End}Objective To investigate the current status of long working hours of food-delivery workers from food-delivery platform, and analyze its impact on their health such as occupational stress, depressive symptoms, insomnia symptoms, fatigue accumulation, and life satisfaction. {L-End}Methods A total of 2 145 food-delivery workers from two food-delivery platforms in Guangzhou City were selected as the research subjects using convenience sampling method. The occupational stress, depressive symptoms, insomnia symptoms, fatigue accumulation, and life satisfaction were investigated using the Core Occupational Stress Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items, Self-sleep Management Questionnaire, Self-diagnosis Questionnaire of Fatigue Accumulation of Workers, and World Health Organization Five-item Well Being Index. {L-End}Results The median and the 25th and 75th percentiles of weekly working hours were 63 (49,77) hours. And 92.2% (1 978/2 145) of workers, who worked more than 40 hours per week, were long working hours workers. While 70.1% (1 504/2 145) workers, who worked 55 hours or more per week, were ultra-long working hours workers. The detection rate of occupational stress, depressive symptoms, insomnia symptoms, fatigue accumulation, and low life satisfaction was 30.1%, 27.5%, 34.7%, 40.8%, and 75.1%, respectively. The longer the weekly working hours of the research subjects, the higher the detection rate of occupational stress and fatigue accumulation (all P<0.01). The results of multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that ultra-long working hours (weekly working hours ≥55 hours) was the influencing factor of occupational stress and fatigue accumulation after excluding the influence of confounding factors among workers (all P<0.05). {L-End}Conclusion The food-delivery workers of food-delivery platforms generally work long hours. Ultra-long working hours is a risk factor for occupational stress and fatigue accumulation among these workers.
